The European Space Agency uses the kits to rough out the mechanical arms it uses in outer space.
It is rough out there for a lot of people, often through little or no fault of their own.
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It might be rough out there but someone somewhere is getting very rich.
Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.
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The American birdied at 18 despite twice finding the rough to edge out South African veteran Ernie Els, who charged into the clubhouse lead with a course-record-equaling nine-under-par 63 even though he bogeyed his final hole.
Athletes tend to get watered down with time, their rough edges rubbed out by biographers and historians who often fail to apply the rigorous discipline of their craft to sports, so much do they want to remain fans.
So it's worthwhile teasing out a rough quantification of how "potential" a threat antinomy is.
It carried out a rough and ready experiment to test the reliability of fingerprints.
It's morning in America for you and me because these entrepreneurs stayed up nights smoothing out the rough edges of our economic system.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili met with Swiss president Micheline Calmy-Rey on Monday in Georgia to iron out the rough spots between Russia and Georgia.
And he and his early compatriots came upon the trick of using the OEX options premiums as a rough way to figure out where the market might be headed.
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Behind this retail chain is a wholesale buying operation: Graff Diamonds International is vertically integrated, taking stones from the rough shapes that come out of the mine to the display case.
They hope they can ride out the rough patch without falling much more behind, before opening a stretch of five straight home games and 10 of 12 overall starting March 4.
Doctors still use a rough calculation to work out the chances of survival - if the percentage of the body burned added to the age of patient exceeds 100, then things are looking bad.
The Fed extended its Operation Twist program last month, in a bid to buy more time for the economy to show whether it is driving through a rough patch or running out of gas.
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One of my mentors once told me that in order to run a successful company, you need to be exceptional in at least one or two skills, and smooth out the rough edges on everything else.
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While America has had numerous third parties, one of our system's strengths is that it in effect forces one of the major parties to co-opt and smooth out the rough edges of issues that third parties may advocate.
The Senate leadership is looking to McCain to take the lead on tobacco legislation, and McCain has been consulting with the White House, state attorneys general and members of the health community to hammer out a rough outline of a bill.
With luck dogs would come out too, rough-haired mutts or poodles with fresh-shampooed coats.
But when you know that other people are trying to figure out what your rough grunt means, you've got a conversation.
Danny Glover plays the tow-truck driver who rescues Kline when his car conks out in a rough black section of the city.
Are they not cut out for the rough-and-tumble world of entrepreneurship?
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Panesar began to turn the ball sharply out of the rough and gave first innings centurion Ashwell Prince problems as the ball reared up at him.
Neither batsman can find the middle of the bat, while Kaneria has gone round the wicket and is looking for some explosive turn out of the rough.
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Kallis was also given a lifeline when 44, Marcus Trescothick failing to hold onto a low edge diving at slip, after the unfortunate Giles turned one out of the rough.
Despite winds of 30-45 knots and rough seas, Aucklanders turned out in their thousands to greet the crew of Merit Cup, which includes nine other Kiwis as well as the skipper.
The unmanned Rifugio Manzini hut, a couple of hundred metres down the mountainside and built out of the rough and beautiful local stone, is slightly more sheltered but conditions are almost as spartan.
Research by the USGA has shown that U-shaped grooves allow top players to generate much more spin when playing the ball out of the rough, making the ball come to a quick stop on the green.
At any rate, we're definitely looking forward to seeing this thing finally materialize so the Touch Pros and X1s of the world can start duking it out in those rough, dog-eat-dog professional trenches of the world.
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